2006. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Green boards, gilt title to spine and embossed title to front cover. 359 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Some foxing to textblock. Yellow spots to lower margins of prelims. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, slightly sunned to spine and a little grubby to rear panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

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Title: WINTER HOLIDAY
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN 10: 0224606344
ISBN 13: 9780224606349
Binding: Hardback
Illustrator: Ransome, Arthur
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

'You know what it's like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.'

Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea -- 'the D's' -- plan a race to find the North Pole. How will they reach it if they can't sail? By sledges of course! But when a blizzard blows up and there is a mix up about signals, the D's disappear into the Arctic night. Disaster looms. Can the Swallows and Amazons save their friends?

About the Author

Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children’s literature of all time.

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